How to Stay Lean as you age
Confused and frustrated that despite your best efforts to exercise and eat right, keeping trim is not as easy as in once was? Thankfully with a few tweaks to your diet and exercise plan, keeping lean as you age is not as ambitious as it seems.
Female Body types: How best to eat, train and supplement for your body type
Understanding your body type can help you to maximize your exercise routine, diet and supplement regime allowing you to set goals that are both realistic and attainable for your body type whether it’s to build muscle, burn fat, or become more flexible and agile. Here’s how.
5 Training Methods to help you break through a weight training plateau
You're eating well, training hard, and giving your body sufficient rest, yet you're stuck in a rut. What gives!? Unfortunately, weight training plateaus happen to us all. Whether you're a beginner, intermediate, or Mr. Olympia, you will no doubt have or will experience at least a few weight training plateaus along the way. Loss in strength, failure to hit rep counts, irritability, lethargy, frustration, lack of motivation, and little to no progress are all telltale signs that you've hit a training plateau.
Cardio Vs Strength Training: Before, After, or Separate Days?
Is there a formula for getting the most benefit from your cardio and strength workouts? That really depends on your fitness goals. Are you bodybuilding? Does your goal lean more towards fat loss? Is it a combination of wanting to build muscle while staying lean? The bottom line is to create a training program that meets your overall fitness objectives while minimizing your risk of injury
A beginners guide to weight training and muscle gain.
Whether your goal is to carve out Brad Pitt's six-pack in fight club or to build an Arnold Schwarzenegger terminator physique, you're going to have to include some weight training into your exercise routine.
Not sure where to start? Let us help!
Weightlifting Belts – Helpful or Harmful?
The weightlifting belt is a useful piece of equipment for seasoned gym bros looking to get the biggest bulk for their buck, but is it really necesary and are there risks involved in wearing one?
The Mesomorph Series: The Ultimate Lean Bulk Plan
The three most common body types, or "somatotypes," are mesomorph, ectomorph, and endomorph. Understanding the three body types with their different body compositions, body shapes, bone structures, and metabolic rates helps nutritionists and personal trainers design effective, personalized workout routines and meal plans.
More than Muscle Gain: 5 Reasons Strength Training Will Change Your Life
Resistance workouts work like a charm for long-term physical, mental, and emotional health – and here are the top five benefits strength workouts will bring you along with a sexy six-pack and Apollo-Esque physique.
Your essential guide to High-Intensity Circuit Training
High-intensity training is all the rage and it’s not at all surprising given the potential health benefits associated with it. But what is HICT and what should I expect? Here's everything you need to know!
Clean Bulking vs Dirty Bulking: Which is best for muscle growth?
Bulking refers to a gradual increase in the number of calories you take in combined with intense weight training. Any calorie intake beyond what your body needs to maintain your current bodyweight is a calorie surplus that your body can then use to build muscle. But which is better, clean or dirty bulking? We have the answers!
Lean Bulking: How to Bulk Up Without Gaining Fat
Going down the route of a lean bulk is much more sustainable in the long run than your more traditional bulk up and cut cycles. It ensures that you get everything you want and need without packing in calories for calories' sake and turning yourself into a literal human garbage disposal.
The Skinny guy's bulk up guide: diet and exercise
Bulking up for most guys can be difficult. For ectomorphs, it can feel damn near impossible. Fortunately, there is some good news. With careful planning, consistency, and our simple step by step guide to eating and training for weight gain, it’s well within your reach.
Muscle Growth: 12 Essential tips to build more muscle
As men, it's only natural to want to look bigger and stronger, but with so much inaccurate information out there, knowing what to believe, what to do, and where to start can feel overwhelming. Here are 12 Essential tips to building more muscle mass!